Share Your Artwork

Sonic · #1 Jun 22, '10, 7:54 pm

Eagelwing's has been kind enough share some of his work with us in the main forums.

I think it's good idea we have a topic for sharing art, doodles, and sketches.

I'll start off with posting one of my old sketches. I work with sculpture mostly, but I do draw occasionally. I'll start with a picture I did a while back.

Who's next?

*I removed the picture to save my bandwidth*

Neildown · #2 Feb 23, '11, 5:17 pm

This is a request picture I did awhile back, and is one of the very few from my older ones that looks somewhat good. I still need to get my recent work on the computer. Please feel free to comment & critique, I can always do with some improvement

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P.S. Sorry the image is so big, I don't know how to downsize it with this site's format.

Sonic · #3 Feb 24, '11, 11:18 am

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This is a request picture I did awhile back, and is one of the very few from my older ones that looks somewhat good. I still need to get my recent work on the computer. Please feel free to comment & critique, I can always do with some improvement

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P.S. Sorry the image is so big, I don't know how to downsize it with this site's format.

That's a neat picture, Neildown! I especially like the tension. It definitely reflects episodes in the books. Those are foxes, but I don't see axes. Am I safe to assume they are not Marlfoxes?

Neildown · #4 Mar 1, '11, 3:52 pm

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That's a neat picture, Neildown! I especially like the tension. It definitely reflects episodes in the books. Those are foxes, but I don't see axes. Am I safe to assume they are not Marlfoxes?

Thank you

. Sorry I took awhile in responding - life is being a bit trying at the moment. No, they aren't Marlfoxes, these happen to be 'good' foxes I believe. This picture was for a friend of mine who was in the middle of a fanfiction, and I think they are brother & sister.

Sonic · #5 Mar 1, '11, 4:58 pm

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Thank you

. Sorry I took awhile in responding - life is being a bit trying at the moment. No, they aren't Marlfoxes, these happen to be 'good' foxes I believe. This picture was for a friend of mine who was in the middle of a fanfiction, and I think they are brother & sister.

I think they are well done. It's good to see you have a grasp on the importance of anatomy. I especially like the detail on the swords.

I would definitely revisit this picture if I were you. You've put so much work into the sketch, it would be a shame not to see it in color. I wouldn't do anything to the original sketch. I'd get some vellum paper and try some color and shading tests by placing the vellum over the sketch. Prisma colors work best. If you have Photoshop (or some other program), you could scan the image and do the same thing on your computer.

Neildown · #6 Mar 13, '11, 1:05 pm

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I think they are well done. It's good to see you have a grasp on the importance of anatomy. I especially like the detail on the swords.

I would definitely revisit this picture if I were you. You've put so much work into the sketch, it would be a shame not to see it in color. I wouldn't do anything to the original sketch. I'd get some vellum paper and try some color and shading tests by placing the vellum over the sketch. Prisma colors work best. If you have Photoshop (or some other program), you could scan the image and do the same thing on your computer.

Many thanks! You have no idea how long it took for me to figure out the right animal shapes when I first started

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I had actually planned to put color to this one, but I rashly tried to in haste, and now it looks terrible

. Good news though - I finished a new picture of a wolf which I'm using in a text-based RPG!

TeenApologist · #7 Jul 5, '11, 11:04 am

First off- good work Neil! The drawings look good. As for my work, I use Adobe Photoshop Elements, GIMP, and a wacom bamboo tablet. Otherwise i just use no. 2 pencils and colored pencils.

*edit*
How can I post an image here? All i can find for pictures needs a URL but I dont have one for this image.

thanks!

Sonic · #8 Jul 5, '11, 12:19 pm

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How can I post an image here? All i can find for pictures needs a URL but I dont have one for this image.

If you look in the profile menu, then you'll see Pictures and Albums. I think you can click on that to set up you own image gallery. I haven't done it yet, because I have a photobucket account already.

I don't know if activating an image album is dependent on post count. So just keep posting a while if you don't see the option right away.

Sonic · #9 Jul 16, '11, 10:39 pm

I guess I'd better share some artwork. Here's a quick fan doodle I'm working on.

Yeah, I know! Sonic just had to do a picture of Princess Sally. How predictable, right?

TeenApologist · #10 Jul 18, '11, 9:07 am

here we go: I can just put up a link to my aforesaid piece.

half photo/half drawing http://s1212.photobucket.com/albums/...wonFarstar.jpg .

-TA

Sonic · #11 Jul 18, '11, 2:56 pm

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here we go: I can just put up a link to my aforesaid piece.

half photo/half drawing http://s1212.photobucket.com/albums/...wonFarstar.jpg .

-TA

Nice! Are you looking into getting into digital photography?

Also, what's the back story on the character you created?

TeenApologist · #12 Aug 18, '11, 5:53 pm

Well, I do a little Photography, but not much. I really didn't have much of a story for him until now- I think I'll mostly use the same (or a similar) story as in the RP.

on that thought, heres a quick sketch of him in his RP get-up.
http://forums.catholic.com/attachmen...1&d=1313715119

not the best, but I need lots of practice to become proficient at furry art. I've never had much luck with humanoid proportions

Neildown · #13 Sep 30, '11, 9:40 am

This is my most up to date piece that I finished within the week. This is a new warlord outfit for one of my aliases as an otter. Nothing like in Redwall, but I had fun making it.

Neildown · #14 Sep 30, '11, 10:00 am

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Well, I do a little Photography, but not much. I really didn't have much of a story for him until now- I think I'll mostly use the same (or a similar) story as in the RP.

I myself have kind of wanted to get into photography, but I don't have my own camera to take pictures with.

He looks pretty cool - I myself have not been very big on the more "edited" anthropomorphic styles I guess you would say [like abnormal fur color or hair, etc.] but you have a nice color scheme going on that kind of scoots my bias to the side. I often have trouble keeping the colors looking balanced and lively so I normally stick to pencil.

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not the best, but I need lots of practice to become proficient at furry art. I've never had much luck with humanoid proportions

As far as I've experienced you just need a passion and lots of practice to become more proficient in artwork. I'm still trying to figure out how to make decent-looking hands on many of my pictures, so I tend to put them at angles that don't require a lot of work whenever I can. So practice would include lots of experimentation and honing a steady hand, as well as lots of patience.

Sonic · #15 Sep 30, '11, 6:51 pm

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This is my most up to date piece that I finished within the week. This is a new warlord outfit for one of my aliases as an otter. Nothing like in Redwall, but I had fun making it.

It looks good, Neildown. I like how you're taking the time to shade and make clean pencil marks. You're also experimenting with armor. I've been trying to do the same thing with helmets. It's not easy. The vulnerable areas of an anthro's face is much different then on a human. You can't just stick a helmet on without it being modified in some way. What you've done here is really cool!

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As far as I've experienced you just need a passion and lots of practice to become more proficient in artwork. I'm still trying to figure out how to make decent-looking hands on many of my pictures, so I tend to put them at angles that don't require a lot of work whenever I can. So practice would include lots of experimentation and honing a steady hand, as well as lots of patience.

Exactly! You have to draw draw draw everyday to get better!

As for hands, I might be able to help you on that a little. They are not really as complicated as you think. Once you learn to block out the basic shapes, then it's just a matter of practice and perspective.

Once you've made your initial gestures, any part of the body can be sketched out using blocks, cylinders, and spheres. This is something you do after you make your first sketches or studies.

I made some quick doodles to show you:

http://forums.catholic.com/picture.p...ictureid=10318

The exact size of the hands on any character is easy to figure out by using this ratio:

http://forums.catholic.com/picture.p...ictureid=10319

No matter what character you draw, you always know the open hand is about the size of the character's face (not his whole head but his face). That way you'll always know the hands will be the right size. Try putting your hand over you face in the mirror.

There are few exceptions, though. Perspective is going to change the size, but that's not a problem. Once you already know what the size should be, it's easier to adjust the size in perspective. The second exception is with really distorted cartoon characters that are intended to have overly large hands and feet, but you can always use this formula for that too. You know the characters hands will be two times larger than his face, and that can help you to draw the character the same every time.

In the case of the Sonic the Hedgehog characters, the heads tend to be much larger then the bodies. Even in drawing the Sally picture, I had to compromise and make the head smaller then the character in the cartoon. Sally's original head is really huge compared to the rest of her body. I had two drawings: one with a huge head and one with a normal proportioned head. I ended up splitting the difference for mine.